title: [Complications of the surgical treatment of reflux esophagitis].
abstract: The complications presented by 36 patients submitted to anti-reflux procedures that were treated in our Hospital in a 10 year period, from September 1978 to May 1988, are analyzed. The patients were divided in 2 groups depending on the initial treatment being performed inside or outside our Hospital. The indication for the initial operation was reflux esophagitis in all patients, 4 or whom, had developed a shortened esophagus with stenosis. The selected procedures were of several types with a clear predilection for the Nissen type fundoplication with its variants. Different kinds of complications were observed; mortality was associated with gastric or esophageal leak, with a fatal outcome in 11 patients, another one died of postoperative pancreatitis and abdominal sepsis (33.3 percent mortality rate).
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cirugía, Servicio de Apoyo Nutricional, Hospital de Especialidades, Guadalajara, Jalisco.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Arenas Márquez
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: de Mucha Mora
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez de la Rosa
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Esparza
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gómez Herrera
mesh_terms: D004942:Esophagitis, Peptic / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*
vernacular_title: Complicaciones en el tratamiento quirúrgico de la esofagitis por reflujo.